“Broadway has been very good to me. But I've been very good to Broadway, too.”
Ethel Merman (1908–1984) American actress and singer
Quoted in "Funny Ladies: The Best Humor from America's Funniest Women", Bill Adler (2001), page 90.
Source: The Christmas Note
“Broadway has been very good to me. But I've been very good to Broadway, too.”
Ethel Merman (1908–1984) American actress and singer
Quoted in "Funny Ladies: The Best Humor from America's Funniest Women", Bill Adler (2001), page 90.
“Very few people know why art sells so high. I don’t even know.”
Ai Weiwei (1957) Chinese concept artist
Ai Weiwei, interview in “ Change http://www.pbs.org/art21/watch-now/episode-change,” Episode 1, Season Six, Art: 21—Art in the Twenty-First Century, PBS, April 2012. <br class="br">2010-, 2012
“There are very few people on top of life, and the rest of us don't like them very much.”
Alan Ayckbourn (1939) English playwright
Newsweek, March 25, 1979.
Ysabella Brave (1979) American singer
"Quick Update from Ysabella Brave" (6 May, 2008) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCVdO__jDgw
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
Source: A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
“There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.”
Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) Russian dramatist, author and physician
Letter to V.A. Posse (February 15, 1900)
Letters
Tathagata Satpathy (1956) Indian politician
After the Supreme Court declared the National Judicial Appointments Commission Act (NJAC Act) to be unconstitutional, as quoted " LS members disapprove Supreme Court's scrapping of NJAC law http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/ls-members-disapprove-supreme-court-s-scrapping-of-njac-law-115120700994_1.html" Business Standard (7 December 2015)
Daniel E. Flores (1961) Catholic bishop
Youngest bishop in the U.S. ready to “propose the mystery” of the Church to Detroit https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/8177/youngest-bishop-in-the-us-ready-to-propose-the-mystery-of-the-church-to-detroit (November 29, 2006)